This blog is from the week starting the 4th of June... Well they say a picture tells a thousand words, I don't have a picture or probably not a thousand words either so we'll see how it goes...... This week we put down the suspended planked floor on the workshop. We started off by laying 3 rows of 6" x 3" timbers on top of the pillars which support the upright posts. It took a bit of time to get all of these level and level relative to each other. When they were all set in place they were bolted into the upright posts with threaded bar, washers and nuts.

Next up was to lay the 5" x 2" floor joists perpendicular to this. They were notched into each of the beams an inch down to keep the overall height of the floor as low as possible so Paul wont hit his head on the cross beams.... This gave us a nice bit of chiseling practice and a bit of a chance to use the chainsaw for accurate cutting to make the initial cuts before chiseling out the joint. We then layed down the floor joists and fixed then in with two 90mm screws into every point at the beams..

I hope its all taking shape in yere imaginations! Finally the 6" x 1" floor joinsts were put down, pre drilled with brad nails driven home to secure them, we left a gap of about 2 or 3mm between each board so that swelling of the boards could be taken into account.. There was some tasty shaping of the planks done around the post uprights to give a clean finish.. Thats about it and if you had no idea what i have been on about I am sure some pictures of the finished floor will appear in next weeks blog.. goodluck